U.S. Works to Persuade Israel on Settlement Freeze

labors to salvage Middle East peace talks were at full strangle on Thursday as American officials required to influence Israel to renew a West Bank resolution freeze with military hardware and political guarantees while urging the Palestinians to believe a partial end to Israeli building there from side to side a separate set of inducements.

So far, no method had been found.

“There needs to be a total cessation of settlements, and for us no other subject is on the table,” said Nabil Abu Rudeineh, a orator for Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, following Mr. Abbas met with George J. Mitchell, the Obama representative to the region. “We are to come for the final Israeli answer.”